Hey there! My disabled, queer, trans partner @melerva is currently 6mo into a job-hunt, and has maxed out her credit cards :S
She needs $600 to make minimum payments until someone hires her! She's currently supporting both herself, another partner of hers', and several animals, so its a bit of a pickle -- anything you can donate will help <3
@ryanc@Susan_Larson_TN "transsexualism" is also seen as a fetish and blocked in those software suites for the same reason, it's honestly utterly disgusting that she'd make that claim without even a hint of self-reflection or irony
@hj@reinhilde@a1ba buddy I was on a pleroma instance in 2017. stop saying its cultural and just say you literally cannot be fucked to learn to do better as a person, that's ok.
Also me instance blocking you is an admission that you're a greasy little timewaster.
@hj@reinhilde@a1ba pulling an "ive been here for years!" rank type deal does not work when I have also been here since around the same time, lmfao. do better, coward.
> What constitutes for "most basic description of the image"? Would "an assortment of some sort of shapes" suffice? Or should I describe facial features of every character displayed?
literally anything is better than a sha256
> even if I add image descriptions folks like you will still complain that it's too short, too long, too detailed or not detailed enough, and therefore not accessible.
@hj@reinhilde@a1ba like yeah, maybe image detection will get better! or, maybe it won't and we'll have another AI winter. banking on it and putting all the chips on something that is as-yet-nonexistent is setting up for failure, when an easy to implement solution (literally just typing out the most basic description of the image) exists now and is immediately accessible to everyone
@hj@reinhilde@a1ba I have autism so please do not use that as an excuse for being an asshole
like, yes the issue would have been solved if you had said "wow, sorry, here it is" but you doubled down lmao. no i dont care what the field is named inside the backend, no i also don't care about the history of the field's existence, what I do care about, as a user, is whether or not an image is accessible to me or not.
i also dont care about future solutions because they are not here yet
@hj@reinhilde@a1ba Like my takeaway from this thread is that one of the pleroma developers is incredibly hostile to blind people existing on the fediverse
@hj@reinhilde@a1ba when someone asked you to provide alt text on your images you sent back a picture of a man with a gun aimed at his head with non-relevant alt-text, you also have repeatedly doubled down on your position, so it is difficult to see how you could possibly support it
@a1ba@reinhilde@hj they kind of shouldn't have to ask because thats putting the onus on the disabled person to ask for every image on their feed. if i did that my posts would be nothing but "can u please tell me what this joke is thank u".
i dont think disabled people should have to ask before entering an online space and i dont think disabled people should have to ask before being able to be included in a joke or a discussion
@hj@reinhilde I literally have used the technology while unable to see (it sucks), and I have never "cool unicode formatting", "ascii art" or "sprite text emoji" precisely because they are ass in a screenreader lmfao
Also at @anarchism.space. Formerly @catgirl.science, @cybre.space.v26.0.0 : Wales, UK : Trans : Lesbian : Pan : Plural : Polyam : DisabledI used to spend an egregious amount of my time in the #ludumdare IRC as Gallefray (lol).Go follow my partners @efi, @melervaI am poor and queer with no income and depleting resources (waiting on the fucking health service), if you feel like it please throw me something via ko-fi :heart: